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Bloomington-Normal, III. Jan. 18, 1979 Panfagraph A -8 Hearing set in deaf-mute case 4x4 OWNERS NEED EXTRA $'s? CALL TOBIN'S PIZZA 829-6822 $1.25 Pr Dollvary Plus Tips Plus Food We Need Help During The Bad Snows! unsuccessful." The Crossroads Rehabilitation Center of Indianapolis had indicated it would accept Lang into one of its programs, but reneged after the Marion County, Ind prosecutor, James Kelley, threatened a federal court fight to keep Lang out, said Fletcher. Lang's bail was set at $50,000 and he could go free if he came up with $5,000 cash, but a civil court hearing found him incompetent to handle his own affairs so he cannot sign his own bail papers. stand trial.

The same problems have emerged again. "The case of Donald Lang cries out for legislative action," the appelate court said in 1975 while reversiij Lang's conviction on the second alleged killing. "This is what you would tall your basic Catch-22 situation," saic Fletcher. Because he is unfit to stand trial, and cannot find the three-to-five-jear program needed to teach him how to communicate, Fletcher says Lang is being denied constitutional rifhts to a speedy trial. Judge Joseph J.

Schneider Circuit Court in Chicago in 1975 ordered Lang, through his attorneys, to design or locate a program that would teach him sign language or some way to communicate. Fletcher said that amounts ordering Lang to cooperate with those who who want to convict him of murder, a violation of other rights. "We have tried everything possible to find appropriate training tor him," Fletcher said, "and so far we lave been Lang, 33, whose life is premiered in a forthcoming movie entitled "Dummy," is accused of the 1971 slaying of a prostitute. He was convicted of the killing in 1972 and sentenced to 14 to 25 years in prison. But a state appellate court overturned the conviction three years later on grounds that he was denied a fair trial.

The court ruled that he couldn't understand the charges against him and he could not aid in his own defense since he neither could speak nor hear nor understand "any known form of communication." He was ordered into a state psychiatric hopsital, but then a court ruled that his problem was physical not mentaland Lang could not be committed to a state mental institution. Lang has been in Cook County Jail for more than 15 months. He also was charged with a similar killing in 1967, but the state eventually dropped the charges after problems developed over whether he was fit to WINTER WHITE BALE SPRINGFIELD (AP)-Donald Lang, a deaf-mute twice accused of murdering Chicago prostitutes, must sit in jail next week while the Illinois Supreme Court hears arguments in a bizarre case that has perplexed legal minds for nearly eight years, justices have ruled. The court has denied a request by Cook County Public Defender James J. Doher-ty that Lang personally attend the arguments.

"I don't think society has anything to fear from Donald," Kenneth L. Fletcher, an assistant Cook County public defender, said Wednesday. Fletcher said Lang has become increasingly despondent in recent months because he can't understand why he is in jail. Attending the state high court proceedings, scheduled for next Tuesday here, would have boosted Lang's spirits by showing him that his case is working its way through the judicial system, Fletcher said. Justices denied the request on Tuesday.

Check printers increase price The price of everything is going up, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the price of spending money also is going up. Deluxe Check Printers St. Paul, the major supplier of checks in Bloomington-iNormal, will increase the cost of checks about 5 percent beginning March 1. The increase is because of continuing increases in manufacturing costs, the firm said. The cost of 200 blue checks, with the name and address printed, will increase from $2.80 to $2.94 per 200 checks.

The cost of picture checks will increase from $3.21 to $3.37 per 200 checks. Those prices do not include postage or the charge added by some banks. A spokesman for the firm said about 50 percent of checks are the scenic pictures type and the remainder are plain color checks. Girl injures knee while pushing car A Normal girl twisted her left knee while pushing a car at her home Wednesday, said Normal rescue squad reports. Cheryl Mulford, 15, of 608 Harris St.

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